You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.

Chastity: the most unnatural of the sexual perversions.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

Like all explorers, we are drawn to discover what's out there without knowing yet if we have the courage to face it.

My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.

All nature wears one universal grin.

There was no such thing as pure happiness. How many years it took to learn that! Always some dark fretted thing which unbalanced the ease one had laboriously found.

Something amazing happens when we surrender and just love. We melt into another world, a realm of power already within us. The world changes when we change. the world softens when we soften. The world loves us when we choose to love the world.

Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.